Processing plant stood dormant after halting operations on June 1, 2021 in Greeley, Colorado. JBS facilities around the globe were impacted by a ransomware attack, forcing many of their facilities to shut down. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)
Kurtis Minder, CEO of threat intelligence firm GroupSense, received a lot of press as a top negotiator in ransomware cases. But he’d rather you not hire him or his peers to negotiate. Instead, he says, he’d much rather you stop the ransomware attack before you’d ever need to call him in.
SC Media spoke to Minder about the ins and outs of negotiations, and the ins and outs of never needing a negotiator.
Ransomware negotiations are sometimes portrayed as a money-making racket. I think people are going to be suprised to hear your preference would be to keep people from getting hacked.
For us it’s not a profit center. We’re not marketing this as something we want to make money off of. We just sort of found ourselves in the middle of it. We’re uniquely suited, I think, as an intelligence company. And now we’ve got a bunch of experience under our belts and ..
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